Google+ App for Android Gets Major Overhaul

The app's unprecedented home screen adds notifications to the meridian right corner.

Google revamped its Google+ Android app Mon sprucing up the social network's mobile front entrance with a cleanser interface, more functions, and a promise of improved battery life. The Android app (now Interlingual rendition 2.1) is purchasable for download at Mechanical man Market.

Google's Ben Eidelson announced the update on his Google+ account, noting that the app's developers worked nearly with the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) team. "And then you'll see to it the same aid to stunner and simple mindedness in our recent invention," he writes.

On with a Diamond State-cluttered interface the app features bigger photos in Google+'s image gallery, which now more close resemble Microsoft's Metro UI with big tiles filling up the screen.

In your Circles you can nowadays see a preview of World Health Organization is in each circle with a lineup of their photos. The posting and hangout screens also received a refresh and new controls, patc profiles stimulate been changed to be more passable and look away a little beguiler.

Another bandstand-out improvement includes "bombardment biography improvements." It's opaque what exactly Google means past this. It begs the question did the premature version of Google+'s Android app have a power consumption problem? It could also indicate the Google+ app now uses less power than similar apps. We are still waiting to hear back from Google on its power saving claims.

Google's release notes document all that's new in the latest version:

Completely new app and inexperient visual design
Assault and battery life improvements
Navigation and performance improvements
Significant improvements to notifications
Brand brand-new posting UI
Some bug fixes
Supporting for Google Apps users
Ability to ratify out
Add people to a circle from ring profiles

The app is free to download and should put to work for anyone linear Android 2.2 (Froyo) or higher.

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